{"id":6034,"date":"2016-11-17T05:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/17\/the-purpose-of-the-on-ramp\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T05:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:08:35","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-on-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/17\/the-purpose-of-the-on-ramp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the On Ramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Too many labor under the misapprehension that the purpose of the freeway on ramp is merely to get one to the freeway. &#0160;Not so. &#0160;It is also a &#39;safe space&#39; for acceleration so that one can safely merge with freeway traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">&#39;One&#39; above refers to the driver-vehicle composite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Suppose you are behind some old lady tooling along at 35 mph when she should be doing 50-60 in preparation for a smooth merge. You may be tempted to pass her to the left thereby violating the gore lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Don&#39;t do it. &#0160;Or else a hefty fine may be in your future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The old are too cautious. &#0160;The young are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">too<\/span> reckless. &#0160;These sentences are examples of generic generalizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Companion post: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/10\/why-is-the-gore-lane-so-called.html\">Why is the Gore Lane So-Called?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many labor under the misapprehension that the purpose of the freeway on ramp is merely to get one to the freeway. &#0160;Not so. &#0160;It is also a &#39;safe space&#39; for acceleration so that one can safely merge with freeway traffic. &#39;One&#39; above refers to the driver-vehicle composite. Suppose you are behind some old lady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/17\/the-purpose-of-the-on-ramp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Purpose of the On Ramp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}